James Hickok_1837

Well i played for about 3 hours yesterday and didnt notice any improvement what so ever. Animals still gone. I havent been able to finish a single Cripps supply mision regarding a wild animal to hunt (Gator, deer etc.) I literally run around all the swamp area and there is not a single gator in the zone....... Oh one thing changed: it seems they changed the daily quests a bit - i saw some that werent in game for a while. Last weeks dailys were almost all the same. There are some really cool challenges that coul be implemented from story mode like : Kill 4 player's (in showdown) using the same tomahawk (only throw, not meele), Kill 4 players or NPC's at once using one explosive charge, and others that are more difficult than just shoot 3 ppl in the head or from cover... And the day before the update i had 26 ! dailys instead of 19. The way i see it goes im loosing hope for them to give us players what we want and what could be given, When Cyberpunk comes here i think ill quit for a looong time.

Just starting playing to check itout as well. Dont care about discounts. Just fixing bugs, Animals etc.

Welcome to RDR2 Online partner !! SADLY There is no actual change to your gameplay by becomming max honorable or max dishonorable in Online mode yet. THe only thing it affects is acces to certain Land of oportunities co-op mission. When max honorable you will not be able to do some of the dishonorable missions but will have acces to other honorable mission- so to have 100% co -op mission progress you will eventually have to lower your honor to be able to do them. I would suggest not paying atention to the honor status and just enjoy full content. Also it is very easy to lower or increase honor by hunting or tormenting NPC's.

Yes searching for those plants can be a pain. That is why i kill every single revenue agent that i come across bcoz i find a lot of those plants in their corpses. Since a few days i come across revenue blockades similar to gang hideouts - they just spawn near and begin the mission for you. Corpses hold tonics, rare spirits and rare plants that are needed for 3 * moonshine.

Had this even before the update but it was very rare. Indeed after the update my dual Mausers disappear when i enter any pvp mode - free roam or showdowns. It frustrates me so much bcoz yes i have to be killed once for them to show up properly. Im guessing its a bug. I dont know if that happens with dual revolvers as well bcoz i dont use them at all - they r just too slow. Same thing with "quick draw of selected weapons". I always set my quick draw option to Dual Mausers but every time i go in a pvp it resets to no weapon. When i set it up again after i die in combat it gets messed up and i have to select it every time. It's starting to annoy me even more than no animals to hunt.

Hah !! The bird route you described was one of my favorite bird feather gold farming routes in New Austin during beta I made some nice cash on those feathers. Back then the birds were respawning no problem everything changed after the "summer" update and got even worse after next updates. I personally choose the Barbarella Alcazar mission - it spawns you near herds of bigger animals when i have all skins and wagon full i move on to the bird location for feathers. R* fix the damn animal spawns !!!!!!!!!

As Bucknation3139 said they do not increase the ammo capacity. About the looks... i bought two of them and i dont like them. There is too much space between the clothes and bandoliers. That just my opinion ofc.

Gawd all mighty who works there ? Idiots? Its like the ppl responsible for creating this great game all quit their jobs and now ppl operating the game are *******.

As much i can understand issues generated with a server where players come and leave and limited spots to the camps i dont understand how hard it is to fix the animal (NPC) spawn rates and introducing interactions with them. Its just server enviroment (or at least should be). The only way for camps to work properly (imo) is that they instance it like the moonshine shack's but we have problems there as well (basically imo transferting in to instance mode to free roam and backforth). In free roam for constant camps it would have to start a new server each time a player joins with his location anchored and join players with the free locations to that server. Some ppl would be left in half servers or even free lobbies bcoz its no way to pair everyone and there would need to be a system to divide all players accordingly so i dont think its going to happen.

Yes i agree and i stated this before also its a shame the progressing in the roles is soo easy and fast. I mean we dont want a Korean grind here but the roles could be streched and the prices for rewards/horses/upgrades should be a lot expensive to buy. It would give incentive to play and level and at the same time would be more rewarding for your time/effort. I guess they aim casual but still hope to have fun playing in this fun western world.

Yeah.....animals......god f*****damn. I really really dont understand how such a big company cant fix the god damn spawn issues. Its been weeks now with no change to this. I like the swamps. I have my camp in Bayou Nwa all the time (if i can set it up xD) and my moonshine shack as well (its the most natural location for moonshiners) so i run around them a lot. It pains me when i literally cruise all the swamps and find 0, ZERO, null, nada aligators.... Not a single one - even submerged in the water. This really sux - its not only about the hunter role but the feeling of the world. Its empty, dead, it lost it's magic. Sure you can pop a legendary bounty and fill the wagon up fast to keep crips producing but as i said it is painfull to see that desert in free roam. So i had a lot of free time during the christmas/new year period so played a lot and decided to go back to Story Mode to continue to finish "Best in the West" acheivement. I was positively shocked. The story mode world is so much more alive compared to Online in its current state. There are animals everywhere ! And they dont just w8 for you to shoot them - they live, hunt eachother, fight etc. It gives the game sooo much climate !! Birds hunting fish in lakes and rivers, bears fishing for salmon, cougars hunting, deer fights and more. The dynamic events are so much better and there is soo much of them ! NPC's in towns dont just walk like zombies -they argue with eachother, fight, work. The towns seem like so much more alive. You can stick up shops and steal money from train passangers... We all (well at least most of us) played story mode and remember more or less how alive the world was. Why oh why this isnt the case in online mode as well? I really dont understand. When i finished my session in story mode i poped back to online and immediately i felt that the world is dead. No animal interactions... hell no animals at all only some birds. NPC only say hello or get the hell out of my way, no way to rob trains ........ What went wrong here R*?? Its not that You have to develop new things... just implement them from story mode...

Ugh i hate statues but seriously it would be nice to get something for levels 300,400,500 etc. How about you friend ? How are the levels going?

Yes as the OP stated its true that after Moonshiner missions you have a high chance to enter a solo lobby. I started noticing it when suddenly there were animals to hunt. I check and find myslef in solo lobby or with 2 or 3 players. At first i didnt know what triggered it but after a few times i found out its the Moonshiner missions. Also i found out that you can lower the price of the mash to 10 $ by doing one story and one delivery mission for Maggie - but there is a catch: When you combine those missions together you have a high chance the mash will get reset so yeah.... not worth trying. Anyway i really dont like to be in a solo lobby longer than 15 mins when my cart and horse is packed with pelts i quit the lobby to enter a populated one.

Yes !! Thank You very much Hans !!! HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU AND ALL PARTNERS OUT THERE !!!!! YEEEEEEE HAAAAAAW !!!

Actually exp matters to me - i want to be rank 500. And about the profit - i noticed that dead revenue agents hold some nice loot - i pick a lot of colectibles and tonics from them so more than 70-200 exp and more profitable than just driving it fast (not to mention its boring). I will say this again - i never said your method was wrong - i just pointed out mine. Dont understand why you r so agressive in your posts.

Was thinking same thing. im making moonshine missions daily but havent recieved that recipe. Cant find it in fence either.

Well u still get treasure map every 5 lvls but other than that and e-peen nothing else besides personal experience.

Yeah its a little sad that we dont get rewards for reaching levels like 300 and higher. Im one of those players - i play a lot, played since february 2019. Im not into cosmetic stuff that much and i would really like to see some ammo capacity and magazine upgrades for high level players. Something like Lumper said about the amount of ammo that you can carry and special upgrades to weapons like magazine capacity upgrade - that would be cool and give lower level players incentive to lvl. Well , maybe someday. Also i would be happy to see horses or property to buy that cost a lot of money. High level players have loads of money and no way to spend it. Would be cool to know that i grinded all my cash for something.

Seriously? Didnt mean to offend you or criticize your method of dealing with the quests. Just pointed out my way. I tend to play agressive so if i have a choice to leave the bad NPC's alone or kill em i choose killing. Its not that i make myself feel tough when i slaughter them - for me killing them is part of the game and not to mention its pure xp. I keep my stealth on when i need it. And im not a begginer - im far from it. I recommend relaxing a bit and maybe laying off the ganja. I hear it makes ppl paranoid. Go any town, choose Barbarella Alcazar legendary bounty. When the mision starts dont go into mission range - just hunt until you max out ur cart, then just finish the mission or kill yourself. Sadly this is the way i hunt now. Its even faster to fill up cripps bcoz it takes half the amount of animals to top him than it was before - its a bit funny bcoz it seems R* implemented it to "fix" the animal number issues.....oh boy.

NOT kill the revenue agents.... Cmon partner they need to die dem basterds! 😁

To make it even faster just skip the flee horse option and just use summon hunting wagon - the horse will disband automatically. Saves some time when you do that a lot on a hunting trip.

Do you play on PC? If so you might encounter cheaters in game on much bigger scale than on console versions. I believe the explosion you encountered is expolding ammo (you gert that on lvl 100) but i cant be wrong bcoz you recorded only the part when you cant pick up the supplies. I belive it happened to me once when i was in a gunfight with a posse while playing. I managed to kill them all and when i wanted to pick the bag up and flee with it before they come onto me again i couldnt pick it up from the ground. Other than that i dont know. I dont play on PC.

I have a difrent approach to this Never use auto drive (only if i need to take a sip from a beer bottle and i just use aim instead of view mode) i like to have control over the wagon. When im close to road block i stop the wagon and deliver 7 shots for my 7 friends - all dead before they start to shoot - Bolt action ofc. After i deal with the roadblock i continue to drive with mid speed to my delivery point use aim when i see the blips behind me and just headshot them as they come (the wagon drives itself bcoz im aiming at that time) - I bolt action them and they dont fire a single shot coz they get dropped from far distance (extra xp). That is my way.

Im feeling you there partner ! The moonshiner role is bugged as hell - for me most annoying is i enter the shack and there are no NPC's inside. Sometimes i exit and enter 20 times and still no NPC's.... i get frustrated and go do something else to come back after 30 mins and encounter same problem. Mash resetting....... doesnt happen to me that often but i had one reset y-day. It took me 2 hours to make the mission and start the mash (no NPC.s) then it just reset. About the animals... I dont understand that it's been 4 weeks like that and they didnt fix it till now........ I am fed up so much with running around a dead world just to find some birds to hunt... wasting time. My recommendation for the issue until they fix it is : Start a legendary bounty - Barbarella Alcazar and hunt there in solo lobby. You can call hunting wagon on that mission (not every mission gives you that option), fill the hunting wagon up , max out the pelts that you can hunt and then finish the mission or kill yourself. I hate to do this but its the only way to not waste time and progress trading until they do something to fix this. Im on X box btw.

Its a bit tricky but not so hard when you take your time. I personally failed only 2 of all my attempts to do it. When i arrive at the spot i hide and take my time to "learn" the patrol routes. I take out the patrols first alway using bow only. After that i mark the rest of the NPC's depending on their view points and execute the killing. In some locations (the barn) you dont have to kill all the guards - i just kill the 2 that cover the enterance to the barn and when the inside patrol cycles i poison the still and run away unspotted. As i said it's not that hard but you have to be patient to do it with stealth.